Great! Thanks for sharing.braingrunt wrote: ↑April 24th, 2017, 10:58 amI've sought answers from God on this subject,
I think he told me the earth is globe shape. I also think that if anything, God has helped form my objections to flat earth theory, and find problems with the few counter-explanations offered by flat earth adherents.
Flat earth theory is only simple on the surface. It gets complicated in a very non-childlike way, very quickly. Here are some concepts which get really hairy:
Celestial Perspective, Vanishing Point, Magnetic sun and moon, Moonphase theory, Eclipse theory, Magnetic Coriolis, Atmospheric lensing, Sunset timing and location theory, Tidal theory, Air Pressure theory, Star Parallax, Conspiracy theory, Flat Analemma.
The complicated explanations are endless because that's the only way to behave when a pet theory shows problems. Childlike eyes looks at all that and says, uh, the ball is easier to understand.
Current Perspective. Current Point of view based on our own biases.
What do you think is going on here? Is God telling you the earth is a globe, or is he telling us it is flat or both?
I believe God gives us knowledge to invite us towards understanding. We have been given knowledge. This thread is to help us find understanding with the knowledge God has given us per his pattern of introducing us to consider something in another way when we are seeking understanding of some topic.
I do believe we are to have the simplistic childlike faith when we go at these things, vs. faith backed upon the flesh-man-peer reviewed philosophy science (not to discredit the many amazing science discoveries, but to put them up against God's perspective and our willingness to maintain child like faith and an open mind to being willing to go against the road much more traveled).
How fun that we can take each of those "really hairy" more complicated topics you mentioned and study them now with new information, new ways to understand the supposed millions of years that made this earth (example: electromagnetism, plasma, lab tests forming vast canyons in minutes with electricity, the sun being an electrical orb, not a nuclear gas oven, etc.).
I would be hard pressed to believe that our adversary, a vain being who wants to be worshiped and usurp God, wouldn't mimic God with vain symbols, signs, and down right logos of his handiworks on earth in everything he can get his palsy hands into. We don't go looking for NASA and what that acronym could symbolize. God puts those things in our study in the patterns he uses in our lives so we are not deceived, just as we might as parents do for our children, putting things in their lives so they can discover truth for themselves with our always lovingly watching over them, ready to give more knowledge as we are open to it.
Child like faith to us isn't dismissing science, but studying what science proposes and asking our father to give us his perspectives on the same topics.
Did you know NASA means beguiled or deceived in the Hebrew? Do you consider these small seemingly unimportant symbolisms, logos, signs, and such as mere coincidences throughout so many of the "world's" systems? What about the serpent's tongue in the NASA logo? What about the names of each NASA mission being one of the gods that all point to nimrod? Are these happen chance or planned in your view?